A woman whose rape kit was allegedly used to arrest her for an unrelated burglary has sued the city of San Francisco in the United States, saying she was “re-victimised” by the controversial tactic.The civil rights lawsuit filed on Monday is the latest update in a case that has prompted calls for reform to prevent other police departments in the state from using rape kit DNA evidence – provided by victims in the hope of identifying and catching their attacker – against the victims themselves.The lawsuit follows a startling revelation by San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin in February that the city’s police department had used DNA collected in rape kits, which were maintained by the department’s crime laboratory, to search for suspects in unrelated crimes.
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